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Volume 118, Issue 49

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PRESIDENTIAL

POWER UT President Gregory Fenves is the final appellate officer on student sexual misconduct cases, a power most university presidents don’t have.

THE BREAKDOWN

School says conduct policy is standard, Texan investigation shows otherwise

How UT’s policy stands relative to other universities

By Will Clark Enterprise News Reporter

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he president of UT has considerably more power to determine the outcome of student sexual misconduct cases than presidents at other universities.

This power is currently being contested in a lawsuit that claims President Gregory Fenves violated due process because of possible conflicts of interest.

“It’s unfair to have a hearing process that is supposed to provide due process but still allows for the most political figure at the University to change everything on a whim,” said Brian Roark, the plaintiff’s attorney in the case.

According to UT’s policy, the president is the final appellate official for any disciplinary case that could

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involve a suspension. This means that after a sexual misconduct case is heard and a sanction is imposed, the only place to appeal is the Office of the President, which is different than most universities. When asked why the president has this power, UT Title IX coordinator Krista Anderson said she didn’t know.

“I do not have that answer,” Anderson said. “I don’t know the why behind it.”

J.B. Bird, UT’s director of media relations, said UT’s policy on this process has been in place since the 1970s.

“There is a tradition of a president being the final arbiter of discipline at a university,” Bird said. “That’s

Percentage of universities where the president is involved in deciding the outcome of student sexual assault

83%

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Not involved at all

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17%

Crowd protests Sessions’ immigration agenda

President is involved

By Chase Karacostas and London Gibson Senior News Reporters

High up on the tenth floor of 816 Congress Avenue, the street-level protest against U.S. Attorney general Jeff Sessions went unheard as he gave a speech on the president’s immigration agenda.

Sessions visited the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of Texas Friday to give a speech on Trump’s new immigration policies and speak to local U.S. Attorney’s office staff and leadership.

To start his speech, Sessions thanked local enforcement officers for putting their lives on the line to protect others.

“President Trump and his Department of Justice understands your mission. He has directed us to support that mission and support you,” Sessions said. “Donald Trump ran for office as a law and order candidate. He is now governing as a law and order president.”

Of these 11 universities, UT is the only university where the president is the sole appeal officer

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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke about Trump’s immigration and his appreciation for local law enforcement at the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Western District of Texas on Friday. At the entrance to the building, citizens protested throughout his speech.

Sessions referenced an executive order Trump signed in February that directed the Department of Justice to develop strategies to increase the safety of law and enforcement officers and expand prosecutions of individuals who commit crimes

against law enforcement.

“It’s the kind of bold agenda the American people have been waiting for,” Sessions said. “We are at a point where we can fix this system … The

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Ai Weiwei releases a documentary covering refugee crisis. PAGE 5

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Childhood Arrivals program in September. In his speech, wall sends a message to Sessions said he supported the world that we enforce the dismantling of DACA as a way to discourage the illegal our laws.”

Trump wants to implement immigration of minors.

“As a DACA student, I am a merit-based system for all new immigrants and reduce really afraid of what’s to come “incentives” that might en- in the next six months if Concourage parents to send or gress doesn’t do anything,” bring their children to the Rojas said. “I’m here to fight country illegally, Sessions said. back, to stand up against the Sessions also brought up racist laws, the hatred that the ongoing “sanctuary cities” they are spreading.”

For three hours, protestbattle making its way through courts both here in Texas and ers performed chants of “Jeff across the nation. Sessions said Sessions has got to go” and “sanctuary” policies under- “We are the masses.” They also mine the rule of law, make it laid out a white Ku Klux Klan uniform and took harder for law enturns stomping forcement officers on it. to do their job and Trump wants to Shortly after release criminals Sessions’ speech implement a into the streets. ended at noon, “I would urge merit-based protesters moved every so-called system for all new from the front sanctuary jurisimmigrants.” of 816 Congress diction to reconAvenue to the sider their policies —Jeff Sessions, U.S. Attorney general side where sever... there are lives al cars were lined and livelihoods at stake,” Sessions said. “We will up waiting to leave. Some of not concede a single block the protesters also went to or single stress corner in the another side of the building to block a secondary exit in an USA to lawlessness.”

Over an hour before Ses- apparent attempt to prevent sions spoke to local officials Sessions from leaving.

UT alum Karen Collins and the media about immigration policies, protesters said she was there to protest gathered outside in front of particularly in support of first the U.S. Attorney’s office and amendment rights. Collins marched around with signs said she’s worried about medeclaring “No place for hate in dia freedom under Sessions the Lone Star state” and “Jeff and accused him of being ‘White Supremacist’ Sessions historically anti-press.

“Jeff Sessions does not have is in ATX today.”

Daniela Rojas, a Lat- a very good record,” Collins in-American studies junior, said. “I’m really sorry he is our said she participated the pro- attorney general ... I don’t have test because of Trumps’ motion any faith that he will respect to end the Deferred Action for our rights.”

By Maria Mendez Senior News Reporter

Saturday was not Miriam Rivero’s first UT tailgate, but it was the first where she felt comfortable as a student in recovery from addiction.

Rivero attended an alcohol-free tailgate, hosted by sober fraternity Alpha 180 and the Recovery First Tailgaters, to celebrate the UT-Oklahoma State football game with Austin’s sober community.

Last year, Rivero, an Austin Community College student, attended a UT football game with her family, but a panic attack caused her to leave during the middle of the game. Rivero had been in recovery for only seven months at the time and felt disconnected.

During the sober tailgate, Rivero said she felt calm and supported.

“I feel safe,” Rivero said.

“I feel like if I want to talk to somebody about something that’s going on internally, I can.”

Parties like tailgates can make recovery hard for college students, said Bob Ferguson, executive director of Alpha 180. Through sober-specific events and West Campus housing, the fraternity, which was

established in September 2016, hopes to help make college accessible for Austin area college students, Ferguson said.

“For sober students, what it’s really about is enjoying the company of other people, but not feeling like an outcast or stigmatized by being sober,” Ferguson said.

Sober tailgates are just like normal tailgates, but they help students learn to socialize without alcohol or drugs, said Sierra Castedo-Rodgers, assistant director of UT’s Center for Students in Recovery. The Center also hosts a separate, annual sober tailgate with University High School, a recovery school under UT. “The only difference is there is no booze,” Castedo-Rodgers said. “People still have lots of fun, talk to one another and head out to the game together.”

While eating breakfast, playing games of giant Jenga or watching the football game on TV, tailgaters from across Austin shared their recovery stories in the parking lot of the University Catholic Center.

Castedo-Rodgers, who is in recovery herself, said Austin is home to a large, young sober community.

“For whatever reason …

Austin is just this big Mecca

for young people in recovery,” Castedo-Rodgers said.

Sober tailgates, however, are not unique to Austin. The number of college recovery programs has grown from just a few to 170 within the last six years, creating more sober events for students in recovery, CastedoRodgers said.

Recovery First Tailgaters also drive a recreational vehicle to help set up sober tailgates at sports and music events across the country. Christopher O’Shea, a Recovery First Tailgater, said at University of Southern California events, as many as 500 people show up to the sober tailgates.

“Once we help start it off, the locals seem to carry the tradition in some of those places,” O’Shea said.

Grace Palmer, University High School junior, said she enjoys exploring UT and conversing with people at sober tailgates more than tailgates with alcohol she previously attended.

“It’s really easy to get caught up … and be like, ‘I’m sober, I can’t go to events because people will be drinking,’” Palmer said. “So it’s really cool to still be able to go out and socialize and be a part of the UT community.”

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Dwayne Beason from Recover First Tailgaters, left, and Bob Ferguson from Alpha 180, right, host a sober tailgate for the Texas-Oklahoma State football game on Saturday morning.

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In September, the Office for Civil Rights cautioned schools “to avoid conflicts of interests and biases” in sexual assault student conduct cases and to prevent university interests from interfering with “impartiality” in the case.

The student accused of sexual assault in the lawsuit is currently suspended from UT for five semesters, per Fenves’ ruling in April this year. Judge Sam Sparks said he will hear arguments for the case before the spring semester, with the next hearing occurring on Oct. 30.

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specify that the appeals process examines whether there was an error in the hearing procedure so the case can be reviewed again. At UT, there is no language specifying the reason for an appeal. The policy allows the president to completely reverse the previous decision.

The Daily Texan filed open records requests for how many times Fenves has suspended students for sexual assault cases or any disciplinary case. The University denied these requests on the grounds that the information relates to ongoing litigation.

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have a president who doesn’t do this kind of work every day and they don’t really know the information they’re looking at, they’re getting some things out of context sometimes.”

Bird said that Fenves is constantly being updated on Title IX issues.

“You’re looking at a person who is uniquely well-informed about the rule,” Bird said. “He’s continually in the habit of following the cases and talking with the Title IX coordinator on this.”

Many schools’ policies

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what is codified in the University of Texas approach and has been for many decades.”

Andel Fils-Aime, director of student conduct and academic integrity, said UT’s policy is “pretty standard.”

However, while there is no consistent approach to the appeals process nationwide, there are some recurring features that are different from UT’s policy. At other major universities, most schools don’t involve the

president at all in their process.

Among the schools that do involve the president, most appeals processes involve multiple people. At UT, the president is the first and final appellate official.

At Texas Tech University, Title IX administrator Kimberly Simón explained why Texas Tech’s president does not have a hand in determining the outcomes.

“The president’s belief is you hire people, put them in the right roles and then let them do their function,” Simón said. “If you

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Second Archer’s Challenge raises accessibility awareness

By London Gibson Texan Position

UT students and Austin community members sat down in manual wheelchairs to raise awareness for wheelchair accessibility in six events across Austin this month, led

by UT student Archer Hadley.

The initiative, called Archer’s Challenge, began Oct. 14 and ended Saturday and featured one event on the West Mall last Wednesday. Challenge participants spent part of the day moving through their everyday life in a wheelchair.

Hadley was born with cerebral palsy and has spent most of his life in a wheelchair.

Hadley started the movement a few years ago in Austin as a high schooler and hosts the challenge to raise money for organizations that work with people living with disabilities, such as Canine Companions for Independence and YMCA of Austin’s Camp Cypress.

Government sophomore Hadley said more students participated in the challenge on Wednesday than in the previous year.

“The spirit of service that’s around our campus is absolutely amazing,” Hadley said.

“It astounds me every year I do this.”

Carrie Dyer, public relations

representative for Archer’s Challenge, said Hadley exceeded his fundraising goal for this year before all of the events were even over.

“Archer’s goal was to raise $100,000 … and he’s raised $109,000,” Dyer said. “And that might update.”

KVUE reported that since the first Archer’s Challenge in 2014, Hadley has raised over $230,000 for improving accessibility in Central Texas.

This year, Austin Mayor Steve Adler also participated in the challenge. On Friday’s challenge in downtown Austin, Adler and others joined at Republic Square, where Adler read a proclamation of support for Hadley and the initiative.

The mayor’s support is a testament to his leadership in the city, Hadley said.

“There are a lot of leaders in politics that put on a face,” Hadley said. “(Adler) is a really tremendous leader for this city … he really cares about the people.”

Archer’s Challenge is a type of disability simulation, or an activity meant for able-bodied people to simulate the experience of a disability.

Government sophomore Caroline Graves said disability simulations help able-bodied people understand issues

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Junior Archer Hadley at one of the Archer’s Challenge events scheduled this month. Participants spend the day in a wheelchair and raise money for people living with disabilities.

related to accessibility and can help raise funds for advocacy and awareness.

“Disability simulations can be powerful because they put yourself in someone else’s shoes, and they kind of help you change your perspective on maybe something you personally don’t experience,” Graves said.

Graves said although disability simulations are helpful in showing able-bodied people obstacles those with a

disability sometimes face, they cannot fully make someone understand what it is like to live with a disability and can contribute to negative stigmas.

“If you’re an able-bodied person participating in this, at the end of the day, you’re able to go back to being able-bodied,” Graves said. “If you gain any empathy or understanding from this, it should not turn into pity … people with disabilities don’t want a pat on the head.”

The challenge will continue again next year, Hadley said, and the success of this year’s challenge showed him that young people are trying to help make better accessibility possible at UT. “It was so inspiring and so uplifting to me to see these young people thriving for this, and they just inspire me and give me hope for the future,” Hadley said. “The world is a pretty dark place sometimes, and we need some light.”

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Housing and Food Service seeks out new mascot for food waste campaign

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Sustainability coordinator for the Division of Housing and Food Service Neil Kaufman holds a poster of a raccoon urging students to not waste food. Posters of the animal will be phased out in the spring after student researchers determine which new animal best encourages students to reduce food waste.

By Grace Speas News Reporter

Raccoons have been the face of a poster campaign to reduce campus food waste for years, but a group of student researchers recently pointed out the animal is actually kind of gross.

Neil Kaufman, Division of Housing and Food Service sustainability coordinator, said advertising graduate and doctoral students approached him last semester saying another animal could produce better results with reducing food waste.

The Division started using raccoons as the face of its marketing campaign in 2014 due to their association with garbage, but is switching gears to another animal next spring.

“There’s a lot of research out there that supports the idea that messaging coming from animal characters is more effective because it’s not a human wagging a

finger at you,” Kaufman said.

Kaufman said he is now working with the marketing department and the students to come up with a new character. The list of possible animals for the new campaign comes from a survey in which communications students were asked which animal would be the best spokesperson for food waste.

The student researchers will be taking the top four or five characters through focus group testing, Kaufman said.

The Division has made efforts throughout the years to reduce waste, such as placing spatulas out so students can serve themselves and getting rid of trays in 2009.

“One of the things (Housing and Food Service) discovered is that when you give somebody a tray, especially a hungry student, you can get a couple plates of burritos and end up wasting more than you eat,” said Jim Walker, director of UT’s Office of Sustainability.

An average day at both J2 and Kinsolving dining halls will see about 1,000 pounds of edible food wasted, Kaufman said. The division has been weighing plates since 2008 to track waste and is using these past weeks as a baseline to help the researchers see the rebranding’s effect.

Environmental science junior Katie Strain weighs plates for the Clean Plate Club and said students are wasting a sad yet interesting amount of food.

“You just find some weird stuff sometimes,” Strain said.

“I once found an entire pizza that someone had taken and not eaten.”

Reducing Housing and Food Services’ waste plays a serious role in UT’s zero waste plan, Kaufman said.

“We are the single biggest contributor to all kinds of waste on campus,” Kaufman said. “So when we make efforts to improve our waste, it affects the whole campus’ goals.”

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Brownsville Project brings students from Texas Southmost College to UT

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Texas Southmost College architecture students visited UT to present their Brownsville West Rail Trail designs to UT and TSC faculty, Brownsville city officials, developers and community activists.

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Forty people filled the Goldsmith Hall Main Jury Room on Friday afternoon, all working to turn an abandoned rail corridor into a new city infrastructure.

Architecture students from the Texas Southmost College in Brownsville visited UT on Friday to present their pavilion designs for the West Rail Trail, an abandoned rail corridor in the city of Brownsville that will potentially be converted to a hike-and-bike trail. In addition to the students, many representatives from Brownsville, such as community activists and government officials, attended the presentation to provide feedback. “(Coming to UT) helps us grow within our architecture perspective,” TSC architecture sophomore Cristian Solis said. “Now, we see how awesome UT is compared to what we have in Brownsville, and we

The purpose of the visit was for a midterm review for a semester-long project

by UT and TSC architecture students to redesign the corridor.

Prior to this project, the city was divided between converting the corridor into a toll road or a hikeand-bike trail. Students from the two institutions were assigned to propose designs for the trail, incorporating the two opposing sides.

TSC architecture sophomore Karina Alcala said the collaboration brings light to an important issue.

“Working with UT students will get more attention to the issue,” Alcala said. “Personally, we want a bike trail, but there are some people who want a road. I hope that (other people’s perspectives) will influence their decisions.”

The UT team consists of students from architecture lecturer Edna Ledesma’s class.

Ledesma said she is impressed with the TSC students’ work and the teamwork between the two institutions.

“Having gone through architecture school, I don’t think I could say that the stuff they were able to produce graphically was something I was able to produce after a year in school,” Ledesma said. “They’re essentially local experts, so they’ve been really helpful for my group.”

Architecture senior Mitch Flora, a student in Ledesma’s class, said working with TSC students provided him with a new perspective regarding architecture.

“Their project right now is looking at pavilions, and something like that can easily transform into a real project that the city can build,” Flora said.

“It’s exciting to see a group of students be so rooted in the community and rooted in actually making change through their studio classes.”

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better artists from the working drafts of the masters themselves.

My freshman year at UT, I took a class On Oct. 5, Japanese novelist Kazuo Ishiguro called Unarchiving the Arts and was able to won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The mass of pull Jack Kerouac’s journal from the Ransom papers that tell the backstory of his award-win- Center’s collection box. In his own scrawled ning works are housed in the ample archives print, I saw his preliminary sketches of “On of the Harry Ransom Center to be studied the Road” and read his unguarded thoughts for posterity. about his aspirations as a writer and his roThe Ransom Center is a great treasure mantic hopes for his own life. I felt connected chest on UT’s campus, stuffed full with the to one of my favorite writers, and that close journals of the world’s proximity with armost brilliant literary tistic genius is someminds, costumes and thing I wish for my screenplays from semfellow students. inal works of cinema And if you want to “For independent and prestige television, do research, it is so original prints from easy to get started. It thought, creative the most famed phoonly takes 20 minutes tographers and much, to make a research inspiration, or art much more. account, get oriented But it is underused. and become a Ransom in context, the HarMost of the Ransom Center researcher. ry Ransom Center is Center’s archive is If you are a professor available to undergrads who is thinking about unparalleled.” for hands-on research, taking their students and holding these docto the Ransom Center, uments is a feeling of the process is simple magic that many more and the rewards are UT students need ample. One artifact at to experience. the Ransom Center In my time at UT, I can be studied in more have had only one class take me to the Ran- than 10 different subject areas. The Ransom som Center, and most students I know have Center acquired the “Mad Men” collection never even been inside. Last year, 414 teach- only last year and the same boxes of materiers took their classes to the Ransom Center’s al have been shown by the Ransom Center classrooms and about 485 undergraduates to English, history, advertising, journalism conducted independent research in the Read- and radio-television-film classes. Associate ing and Viewing Room. While those num- professor of musicology Luisa Nardini, the bers are large, they still compose a very small professor who introduced me to the Ransom subset of the UT population. They indicate Center two years ago, explained that the prothat only 1.2 percent of our 40,000 under- cess for booking a classroom is straightforgraduates conducted independent research ward and requires only a few forms. with the Ransom Center’s resources.

At the Ransom Center, students can see If you are a student who values primary museum-worthy materials right out from sources, then research at the Ransom Center behind velvet ropes and plexiglass. For inis crucial. Engaging with primary sources is dependent thought, creative inspiration, or a formative intellectual experience, one that art in context, the Harry Ransom Center is makes you a more independent thinker. In- unparalleled. And as Gustavson said, “Peostead of reading secondary summaries, you ple travel from around the world to visit the draw your own conclusions and inject new Ransom Center.” thought into larger academic conversations.

While academics book flights to get their Instructional services coordinator Andi hands on the Ransom Center’s resources, Gustavson said that when students pull UT students only have to take a few steps off from the Ransom Center archive, “they have the Drag. So do it. Explore the treasures that the opportunity to learn about the creative are not buried or locked, but are open and processes of artists and authors.” Students waiting to be seen. get intimately close to the creative minds Doan is a Plan II and English junior from they geek out over. They learn to become Fort Worth.

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The long string of sexual assault allegations made against Harvey Weinstein wasn’t breaking news to many women in entertainment.

Yes, their phones may have buzzed with push notifications all week, and yes, the NPR updates may have been unavoidable. But it wasn’t news. Even if they’re not one of the more than forty victims speaking up about Weinstein, women in entertainment have had their runins with abuse, mistreatment and ever-present toxic masculinity.

Toxic masculinity takes on a snake-like form in entertainment circles, which perhaps explains why the general populace is amazed by the confirmation of what creative professionals have known for decades. The entertainment industry advertises itself as progressive, respectful and accepting. In reality, it’s a playground for men who can’t see women as actual people.

The idea that broadly supporting feminism excuses male artists from scrutiny obscures reality. Cognitive dissonance plagues entertainment communities other than just the rich, elite echelons. If this music blogger gave Courtney Barnett’s new album a stellar review, he would never have sex with an intoxicated woman. If this art student talked about how much Georgia O’Keeffe influenced him, how could his body language make a woman uncomfortable?

And it’s more than just sexual assault, too.

From KVRX DJ Shamika Kurian’s observations, the issue of sexual assault stems from smaller but still problematic behavior. “(Sexism in KVRX) starts with things like, ‘Oh, your music sucks.’ It starts with that level of disrespect and just gets worse and worse,” the public relations sophomore said.

“We don’t take girls seriously enough in every sense of what we’re talking about, and when it comes to bigger things, we don’t believe them and don’t think that they’re capable of having a valuable or genuine opinion.”

The repression of women’s voices that we

now see in allegations against Harvey Weinstein takes root in the behavior Kurian experiences right here in Austin.

“Liberal Hollywood” is a smear often used by conservatives upset that actors voice popular opinions, but the term is accurate in its characterization of entertainment circles as morally cavalier and detached. Those in positions of power reference their campaign donations and political Oscars speeches, but these gestures don’t come from personal conviction.

They’re just masks. Veiled by an illusion of righteousness while simultaneously marginalizing women, male filmmakers can forward their own agendas of personal gain.

This paradox is what makes it so easy to ignore toxic masculinity in the entertainment industry. Real misogynists disempower women through the system — like Trump, right?

Weinstein supported Hillary, and liberals thought that exempted him from any possibility of wrongdoing. If they had looked past his politics, maybe they would have noticed his own system of demeaning women and drowning their voices afterwards.

Toxic masculinity thrives in elite entertainment communities, but this problem isn’t isolated to an exclusive scene of filmmakers.

Misogyny isn’t confined to The Weinstein Company — or any other one record label or talent agency — and it doesn’t only manifest in sexual violence. Misogyny exists in many forms and at all levels of the entertainment industry. If artists and entertainers want to prevent sexual assault in their work environments, they must eradicate abusive behavior in its many different forms. This undertaking includes learning how to look beyond seemingly progressive abusers’ politics.

We cannot remove sexual assault from the larger narrative of misogyny in the entertainment industry. If we want to solve broader issues of sexual assault, we also need commitment to tackling toxic masculinity at large, no matter which disguise it wears.

Larcher is a Plan II and rhetoric and writing sophomore from Austin.

COLUMN

‘Me Too’ is a lot harder to say than you would think

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By Josie McLean Senior Columnist

When it happened to me at work, I wondered what the hell I had done wrong.

On my first day, an older attorney who shares office space with us made a joke about me stripping off my clothes. The comment itself involved gestures, a creepy attempt at a fatherly laugh and a wave of the hand, as if to say “I’m just joshin’ ya.”

Malicious or not, the comment was followed by an uncomfortable round of interactions where my new haircut was fondled, my smile was commented on and I was repeatedly called “sweetheart.”

For seven years, I took classes specifically focused on women’s rights and professional development. Just this summer, I took a management class where I had to memorize legal definitions of sexual harassment and how to deal with it in the workplace.

If anyone has the tools to deal with workplace sexual harassment, it’s me.

But it took three different interactions with the man, and hours on the phone with my mom before I could bring myself to “rat him out.” I felt guilty for bringing it up at all because I didn’t want to make trouble or hurt our office’s working environment.

I finally told one of my bosses he was making me uncomfortable. I know she must have said something, because ever since then the man has treated me like toxic waste. Four months later and we are just now back on nodding-hello-in the-hallway terms.

I’ve heard men who are my peers and friends complain about how hard it is to know how to treat women these days. In one conversation, someone said that they wouldn’t even help a girl

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who was drunk, because they were too worried about being accused of sexual assault later.

But from where I’m standing, it doesn’t seem all that complicated.

When it happened to me in my own friend group, nothing could have prepared me for how complicated it was to navigate the fallout. A man who had been my friend got blackout drunk at a party, backed me against a counter, leered down my dress, and when I finally got him to go away, smacked me on my behind. I wasn’t the only woman at that party he treated that way.

Just two weeks later another male friend who knew all the details of what happened initially told me he understood and wanted to make sure I was okay. But then he spent our next half hour together telling me how sad he was that my discomfort seeing the perpetrator meant he couldn’t invite the guy to his birthday party.

What could I say? How could I assert my own feelings in the face of his obvious distress and still be a good friend? I told my friend I was fine, go ahead and invite the guy.

I initially didn’t participate in the “Me Too” campaign because I didn’t want to air my personal business. But I’m realizing now that it isn’t just personal anymore. It’s endemic.

When I shared the party incident with my mom and her friends, one of them said “Wow, things have really gotten better than when I was in college if that’s considered inappropriate behavior these days.”

Like many other women, these are not the only stories I could tell about instances of sexual harassment and assault. I’ve heard stories that gave me chills, and ones that made me cry.

Now the only thing left to say is me too. Me too. Me too.

MacLean is an advertising and geography junior from Austin.

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MOVIES

Ai Weiwei releases ambitious film about refugees

By Albert Zhao Senior L&A Reporter

Ai Weiwei is a man known for his massive art projects, such as the 32foot “Forever Bicycles” exhibit downtown, but he has taken on something massive, even for him: filming the world’s refugee crisis.

In his new documentary, “Human Flow,” a project that employed over 200 crew members, Weiwei travels to 23 countries to interview refugees, observe resettlement camps and join rescue workers.

For a crisis that exceeds World War II in terms of displaced people, Weiwei uses drones to film the breadth of these camps and their inhabitants, highlighting cramped conditions and fragile housing.

Andrea Mellard, director of Public Programs and Community Engagement at The Contemporary Austin, which hosts two of Ai Weiwei’s exhibits, said drones provide a symbolic point of view for refugee camps.

“Drones flatten out a perspective and shows the arbitrariness of borders, the sameness of camps,” Mellard said.

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Ai Weiwei explores refugee crisis with new documentary “Human Flow.” It was released Oct. 13.

“Individual refugees become a mass of people, and they’re all equally deserving of dignity … He’s made a truly cinematic documentary, epic in its view.”

Weiwei does not shy from capturing desperation up close. In Bangladesh, he visits Rohingya refugees describing brutal violence by the Myanmar military, which the U.N. last month described as “ethnic cleansing.”

In the West Bank, Weiwei observes

Palestinians — many of whom have lost their homes to Israeli settlements — who have their workdays interrupted by frequent power outages.

Even the more fortunate refugees that are able to avoid the outdoor tents bear struggles that Weiwei thinks are overlooked. One refugee girl and her family in Tempelhof, Germany, simply sit and wait for the days when they can finally go home.

Mellard said Weiwei’s strong, personal focus on refugees stems in part from his background of also fleeing a hostile country.

Growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution, Weiwei and his poet parents were sent to labor camps during a period of crackdowns and purges.

In 2011, the Chinese secret police imprisoned Ai Weiwei for his

outspoken activism for civil rights and his criticism of the government.

He was imprisoned for 81 days. “(Ai Weiwei) has been a refugee in some form for his entire life,” Mellard said.

His goal for “Human Flow,” Mellard said, is to open the audience’s empathy toward refugees and portray the lack of humanity when a country closes its borders to them. “(Weiwei’s) concern for free speech has evolved into a concern for free movement,” Mellard said.

Feeling stunned after seeing the film, Grace Mueller, a recent UT corporate communications graduate, said Weiwei’s footage of the refugee camps and their prevalence across continents resonated with her.

“There’s an awe factor,” Mueller said. “You see the magnitude of all the camps and all the people inside. It kind of, in some ways, puts each country on the same playing field. Everyone who is in this situation are humans, and they’re lacking so many fundamental needs.”

ALBUM REVIEW | ‘ALL AMERICAN MADE’

Country artist Margo Price’s new album achieves wide appeal

By Chris Duncan L&A Reporter

As punk’s meaning shifted from an aggressive form of rock music to a vague reference to DIY attitudes and counter-culture, many movements adopted the punk mindset. Although she might stretch the term to its limits, Margo Price is country’s new punk.

Pleasing both traditionalists and modern country fans, Margo Price takes an approach similar to the styles of Willie Nelson and Loretta Lynn — she doesn’t give a damn about tradition. On her 2016

solo debut, Price challenged the status quo. Now with her sophomore release, All American Made, Price does much of the same to moderate success.

Following in the footsteps of outlaw country while incorporating influences from soul and blues, Price and her husband, Jeremy Ivey, wrote All American Made as an honest portrayal of American life.

Whether it’s tales of difficult manual labor, lost romances or politics and sexism, Price attempts to run the gamut with this LP, and it surprisingly works. Standout moments include “A Little Pain,” a song focused on the importance of

an optimistic outlook to work, and “Heart of America,” an examination of the failings of the American dream.

The most surprising song on All American Made is “Pay Gap,” a raw, unbridled examination of wage discrepancies.

Initially, Price appears to take a feminist perspective on the issue, but goes on to transform the issue from one of sexism to that of basic rights, bringing in her own sense of humor when she sings, “Don’t give me that feminism crap.” Paired with the Spanish-inspired guitar work and a good instrumental mix, “Pay Gap” stands out for all the right reasons.

Not every song hits its mark though, especially “Learning to Lose.” The jazzy duet featuring Willie Nelson is most certainly the realization of Price’s wildest dreams, but the message concerning the cost of learning life lessons was certainly lost in the excitement of this duet. Price and Nelson sound like they’re working separately and against each other, leaving the song’s purpose unclear.

Repeated listens to All American Made certainly reveal its merits, but they additionally reveal subtler flaws, especially in terms of variety.

Price’s debut album, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, deals with many of the same issues sans politics, making this LP feel like an evolution of its predecessor rather than a revolution.

For dedicated Price followers, this project will certainly satisfy their cravings, and newer listeners will find a fun and engaging album that might get them hooked. However, for more passive fans, All American Made could feel like a rehashed project that relies too heavily on its formulas.

Price’s brand of country isn’t stale — yet. Right now

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FOOTBALL

Longhorns end up heartbroken once again

By Alex Briseno Senior Sports Reporter

It was an all-too-familiar sight for the majority of the 92,506 spectators at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium: yet another heartbreaking loss.

Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger and the Longhorns walked off the field in dejection, as they watched their opponent storm the field following another painful defeat.

This time, it was No. 10 Oklahoma State celebrating a 13-10 victory.

Stunned looks ran across DKR on Saturday afternoon — except for a small, bright orange section on the visiting side of the stadium where the Oklahoma State fans celebrated the Cowboys’ win.

“I don’t know when we’re going to break through that barrier,” head coach Tom Herman said. “I thought it was going to be this week. We had an unbelievable week of preparation. The guys were focused and ready to go. But it wasn’t.”

Texas took the Cowboys, a team boasting the top offense in the nation, into overtime with the score deadlocked, 1010. Saturday marked Texas’ third overtime of the season, and the Longhorns appeared to be primed to polish off a major upset, until they didn’t.

Oklahoma State had the first possession of overtime, but the Longhorn defense did

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Freshman quarterback Sam Ehlinger is tackled by Oklahoma State redshirt junior defensive tackle Enoch Smith, Jr. Ehlinger was sacked three times on Saturday in a 13-10 overtime loss to the Cowboys.

what it had done all game: prevented the potent Oklahoma State offense from entering the endzone. Texas forced Oklahoma State to kick a field goal, giving freshman quarterback Sam Ehlinger the ball with an opportunity to win the game.

With Texas less than seven yards away from winning the game and pulling

off Texas’ biggest win of the season, Ehlinger took the snap. The freshman quarterback rolled to his left but was quickly forced to backpedal after the Cowboy defense forced pressure.

Unable to plant his feet, Ehlinger lobbed the ball into the endzone, barely in the vicinity of junior receiver Jerrod Heard and sophomore Devin

Duvernay. The ball floated several yards away from Heard and Duvernay and right into the hands of Oklahoma State senior defensive back and San Antonio-native Ramon Richards, who fell to the ground to end the game.

“It’s awful,” Ehlinger said.

“Losing sucks. That’s every week that we lose … I just made a mistake. I thought

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that Jerrod (Heard) was going to circle back up to the back of the end zone for a jump ball.

That’s why I put it up there for him and for a chance to win. It was a mistake.”

Texas’ 13-10 loss marks the Longhorns’ fourth defeat of the season, and another close one at that. Overtime forced the Longhorns to do something they hadn’t done all

game: depend on the offense to close things out. After a strong defensive effort, Texas’ offensive unit failed to ice the contest.

The Longhorn defense, however, kept the burnt orange in the game by holding the nation’s top offense, who came into the matchup averaging over 48 points per game, to 13 points — the first time the Cowboys haven’t scored 20 points or more in 36 games.

But it wasn’t enough, not with the mere 10 points the offense put up. “(The defense) played well enough to beat any team,” junior running back Chris Warren III said. “We’ve got to help them, point blank.”

Texas is now coming off of back-to-back, one-possession losses to then-No. 12 Oklahoma and No. 10 Oklahoma State.

The Longhorns’ loss to the Cowboys also marks their second overtime loss to a top10 team. However, despite a 3–4 record (2–2 Big 12), Texas has been in every game this season.

Texas is close, and Herman knows it.

“I told our guys all week, after the loss to Oklahoma, that we were close and that close is a lot better than the alternative,” Herman said. “They’ve been a part of teams that were far away, and you know it when they are. This one’s not.”

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Frustration boils over for Texas in another agonizing loss

Longhorns claim Red River victory in Norman

By Keshav Prathivadi Sports Reporter

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Senior wide receiver Lorenzo Joe takes a knee following the Longhorns’ 13-10 overtime loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday. Joe finished the game with one catch for nine yards.

By Trenton Daeschner Assoc. Sports Editor

In the northwest corner of Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Saturday afternoon, the only thing some Longhorn players could do was simply kneel down and process another agonizing loss.

The play that had dashed Texas’ hopes of a breakthrough victory over No. 10 Oklahoma State was just too excruciating to accept.

Freshman quarterback Sam Ehlinger stood bewildered and pointed in the direction of where everything came crashing down. He couldn’t believe what he had just done.

Ehlinger’s pass into the corner of the north end zone on third and four in overtime was nowhere close to a Longhorn receiver. Oklahoma State defensive back Ramon Richards had no trouble intercepting Ehlinger’s gift of a pass, the final play of Texas’ 13-10 overtime loss to the Cowboys.

“I feel like we’re in every game,” junior defensive back DeShon Elliott said. “We don’t know how to finish. We’ll get to that point. We’ll keep digging and eventually we’ll get to diamonds.”

As Oklahoma State players began to storm the field, senior wide receiver Lorenzo Joe dropped straight to a knee.

Senior wide receiver Dorian Leonard crouched down in disgust,

then was consoled by injured senior tight end Andrew Beck.

Junior linebacker Malik Jefferson also went down to the turf. Jefferson had said earlier in the week that the Longhorns just needed one more turn for Texas to break through. But on Saturday afternoon, Texas took a turn back into the wrong direction, dropping to 3–4 on the season and 2–2 in Big 12 play.

It was the third time this season the Longhorns went into overtime, and it was the second time they came up a play short.

“It’s tough — I have no words for it honestly,” Jefferson said.

Fellow junior linebacker Breckyn Hager was the first to console Jefferson.

Hager turned in one of the best performances of his career on Saturday. The Austin Westlake High School product set a career-high in sacks with two, tallied three tackles and had a quarterback hurry. Hager said after the game he wanted to bounce back after dropping a crucial red-zone interception in the third quarter of last week’s loss to Oklahoma in Dallas.

“I just knew there was a lot of opportunity out there for me, and I had to take it,” Hager said. “I felt real down on myself about dropping that OU (interception).”

On a day when the Longhorns held the No. 1 offense in the nation to just 10 points in

regulation, Texas still couldn’t close out another game. After the loss, few words were used to describe the pain of yet another gut-wrenching result.

The one question seemingly hanging over the Longhorns’ minds after Saturday’s defeat was simple: When will things finally turn around?

And maybe that was the question so many Longhorn players on bended knee were trying to answer in the wake of another painful loss on Saturday afternoon. The upperclassmen in particular — Joe, Leonard, Elliott, Jefferson and Hager — have spent their entire Texas careers confronting that question and dealing with frustration.

And they know time is running thin.

“This upper class — it’s special,” Hager said. “We’re tired of talking about it to you guys and saying that. But we are special, and we are bringing positives out of these negative outcomes.”

But the only positives that haven’t followed are the ones that teams are ultimately judged by — wins.

“We’re very close. It’s still not over with,” Elliott said. “Because we believe in each other. The defense believes in the offense, the offense believes in the defense and we believe in our coaches. We’re a family. So eventually, we’ll rally together and get things right.”

The Red River won’t be crimson this year, at least on the volleyball court.

The No. 3 Longhorns (16–2, 8–0 Big 12) came from behind on Sunday afternoon to take down Oklahoma in Norman, improving its win streak to 10 games.

The two teams started off evenly, going point-for-point for the majority of the opening set. After Texas took a 2322 lead, the Sooners used a 4-1 run to close out the first frame in their favor.

“We started off a little rocky at the beginning,” senior outside hitter Ebony Nwanebu said. “It took us a while to get back into the groove.”

Following a rare loss in the first set, Texas quickly turned it around, claiming the next two sets 25-13 and 25-18, respectively.

Freshman outside hitter Lexi Sun led the charge with a team-high 19 kills and eight digs. Senior middle blocker Chiaka Ogbogu and sophomore outside hitter Micaya White each added 11 kills.

A strong defensive effort also helped the Longhorns turn defense into offense. The Longhorns had 16 blocks to the Sooners’ six, disrupting Oklahoma’s offensive flow at the net.

“Our defense did really well after the first game,” Nwanebu said. “That set our setter Ashley (Shook) up to dish out balls to her pins in the middle, and everyone else did their job.”

The final frame was contested by both teams, with Oklahoma escaping three match points before eventually folding at the hands of a Chiaka Ogbogu kill, sealing the 25-22 win in the fourth set.

Our defense did really well after the first game.

That set our setter Ashley (Shook) up to dish out balls to her pins in the middle, and everyone else did their job.”

—Ebony Nwanebu, Senior outside hitter

“We knew that we needed to bring a little more energy,” Nwanebu said. “(Head coach) Jerritt (Elliott) talked to us about coming out better, and that’s what we have to look forward to in the upcoming games.”

Texas’ win in Norman wraps up a stretch in which four of the Longhorns’ five games have been on the road. As the team returns home for an extended break, they can finally take a breather.

“We’re gonna get two days off to recover mentally and physically,” Nwanebu said. “Then we’re going to hit the gym again.”

On top of being on the road for an extended period of time, the Longhorns have played a grueling schedule as of late, including a slate of three games in one week.

Texas will take a five-day break from action and return home to Gregory Gym to take on West Virginia on Saturday, Oct. 28. First serve is set for 7 p.m.

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Senior outside hitter Ebony Nwanebu sends a spike over a pair of Baylor defenders. Nwanebu racked up nine kills in Texas’ 3-1 win over Oklahoma on Sunday.

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